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  • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

    by John W. Cousin ...
    "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature" by John W. Cousin is a comprehensive reference work that provides concise biographies of notable English authors and literary figures. The book covers a wide range of writers, from the well-known to the obscure, offering insights into their lives, works, and contributions to literature. Cousin's dictionary serves as an invaluable resource for ... Read more

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  • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

    by John W. Cousin ...
    The primary aim of this book is to give as much information about English authors, including under this designation American and Colonial writers, as the prescribed limits will admit of. At the same time an attempt has been made, where materials exist for it, to enhance the interest by introducing such details as tend to illustrate the characters and circumstances of the respective writers and the ... Read more

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  • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

    Exploring English Literary Icons: Profiles, Criticism, and Commentary

    by John W. Cousin ...
    In "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature," John W. Cousin meticulously compiles the lives and works of a vast array of authors, offering concise yet illuminating entries that span from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. This reference work is notable for its accessible prose, which caters both to scholars and general readers, blending biographical overviews with ... Read more

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  • The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series

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  • The Elizabethans

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    England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block.But it was also an age that encouraged literary genius, global exploration, and timeless beauty. When the lowly privateer Francis Drake circumnavigated ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    by Margaret Crosland ...
    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... Read more

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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

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  • Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr

    by Evelyn Waugh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr. He tells Campion's story with a novelist's eye for detail, from his success as an Oxford ... Read more

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    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

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  • The Betrayal of Richard III

    An Introduction to the Controversy

    by V.B. Lamb, Peter Hammond ...
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